A Taste Of New Wine
A Taste Of New Wine
Wine sampling is not as hard as you think. You don’t need to have formal training and everyone can do it. As far as etiquette is concerned, the ladies are usually served up before the men. Be ready to be given bottled water served at room temperature at your wine sampling party. The water is to wash out your mouth between tastes in order for the roof of the mouth to be clean for the next wine. The water is not to be very cold as this can shock your palate which can change the taste of the wine dramatically.
Holding the wine glass by the base and not the bowl in the palm of your hand is crtical when it comes to wine tasting. Your hand can warm up the glass to an extent where it changes the flavour of the wine so try to avoid this.
Most individuals think that wine tasting is just a matter of wrapping the wine about your mouth before you either spit it out or swallow it.
The first step in tasting wine is by taking a look at its coloring. Make sure the glass you have been given is clean and easy to see through otherwise you can’t see the true coloring of the wine. To be able to see the wine and its true coloring clearly you should use a white background, some individuals use a white table cloth. White wines are not always perfect white, sometimes they are a tone of green, yellow and even brown. When looking at the coloring of a red wine you will notice that they come in different shades, the older the wine the lighter it is.
Try doing a lip examination and look at the color of the wine, this can give you some indication as to the age or flavor. You can tell the age of the wine by tilting the glass and observing the different colors, a purple coloring will be a young wine and a brown colour will indicate an older wine.
Testing the aroma is the next step and this is done by twirling the wine around the glass to mix in the air and then breath fully through the nose after placing the glass just above your top lip. You have to remember that the wine may have been in the bottle for six months to many, many years, by swirling the wine, you will release the flavours. blending wine from the bottle with air is no different that mixing all the components together when cooking.
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